Salvador Allende
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Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens was a Chilean socialist politician who served as the 29th president of Chile from 1970 until his suicide in 1973. As a socialist committed to democracy, he has been described as the first Marxist to be elected president in a liberal democracy in Latin America.
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Sep 11, 2026
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The 53rd anniversary of the 1973 Chilean coup that overthrew Allende is marked by La Jornada as a day of mourning.
For Morena, Allende remains the martyred symbol of democratic socialism crushed by the right and the military, a warning against the opposition at home.